Genesis 19:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And Lot said unto them—my Lord— In Genesis 19:17 it is said, that when they (the angels) had brought Lot forth, he, i.e.. one of them, said, &c. And so here Lot applying to both, (who evidently acted by one commission,) immediately addressed one only, and him, most probably, who had said, Escape for thy life, &c. But it appears very clearly, I think, that neither of these was the Jehovah, who spoke with such authority in the former chapter. In Genesis 19:13 they say positively, Jehovah hath sent us to destroy it; and therefore, when one of them speaks in Genesis 19:21 authoritatively, it is easy to observe that they do so only with reference to their grand commission of saving Lot and destroying Sodom; on which account I cannot agree with those expositors, who think the person that speaks in Genesis 19:21 the same with the LORD, who talked with Abraham in the preceding chapter. And perhaps the Hebrew (which, let us remark, is not יהוה Jehovah, but אדני adonai) might properly be rendered, my Lords.